The
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Hongkong Telegraph.
August 4, 1913, Temperature a.m. 77, p.m. 80, Cumidity...94, 90.
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THE INDIAN TROUBLE.
SUMMER HOLIDAYS.
BALKAN AFFAIRS.
FURTHER AGREEMENT.
#BRIOUS RIOTING,
Rauter's
[Service to the "Telegraph."}
London, Received Aug. 4, Renter's correspondent at Cal-
catta atates, that there has been serious ricting at Cawnpore. A
MANY ACCIDENTS,
Router'
Reuter's
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AUGUST
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THE BERMUDAS.
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August 4, 1912, Temperature am. 78, p.m. 81. fiumidity.. 03 85
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FIRE ÎN A MINE.
23 MEN ENTOMBED.
晚伍月八英淮香,
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|SUFFRAGIST SACRILEGE.
THE LITÁNY PARODIED.
Renter's
[Service to the "Telegraph.")
London. Received Aug. 4. A party of forty Suffragettes interupted a servics at St. Paul's Cathedral on Sunday by singing
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THE NEWS CONDENSED
The Balkan artistion has been extended for three days,
Latestpaws from Cafanita shos that the condition at Cawnpore is
a serious one.
Reuter's [Barvice to the Telegraph.”]:
Bervice to the Telegraph."] [Bervice to the "Telegraph."] London. Received Auga+t 5.
London. Received Aug. 4. London, Received August 5. London. Received Aug, 4, The continued fine weather has A message from Bakbarest says
Renter's correspondentat
A fire traging in Oadder Pit, resulted in a phenomenal number that the Bulgarian and Rouman- Washington states that the report near Glaagon, and 23 m of arrivals et holiday resorts, and jan delegates have finally agreed that Britain contemplates great entombed. Two attem mob endeavoured to re-construct the police in many instances have in regard to the frontier and naval base in the Bermudas is rescue have failed.
It is believed that the Faiobi the demolished portion of the been obliged to find accommoda- other Roumanian claime. Bul keonly interesting official ·
a parody of the Litany, beginning was bit during the demonstration Mosque, and the police intervention for the visitors, numbers of garis undertakes to raze the circles. It is stated that Britain London. Received Aug. 5, with the words "Save Emmeline against Woodbow Forte. ed, but they were stoned and whom slept on the sands. fortifications at Rustchak and bas enquired as regarde América'a Two corpsen have been found Pankhurst! Fpare her! Spare pursued to the Station. The crowd The list of accidents is growing Shumla: The Rulgariaus and the plan to protect the Panamy Canal in Oadder Fit and one man has her declined to disperse, and the hourly. Twenty drowning fat Servians and Greeks have up to routes, and it is saggen that been extriested alivo. police were forced to make a alities are reported, the victims the present been unable to agree this indicates the intention of charge, 13 rioters being killed including five girls at Sligo. An the frontier. Therefore Roum-safeguarding shipping pagh
and 30 injured, and one police motor-bas overturned at flodder-jania will propore the extension the earl, ss in the case of 10 been found, and one man hop] UNSTAMPED RECEIPTS
man was killed and 40 injured.don, Herts, and three "beaufeas of the armistice for three days.
Many arrests were made, de
The Lieutenant Governor hos
gone to Cawnpore, “
'Cause of the Riots. London. Received Aug. 5. Reuter'a correspondent at Simla niates that Sir James S. Meston, the Lieutenant Governor, visited the hospital at Cawnpore and enquired after the wounded, and he also went to the jail, where the arrested number 100. It is f believed that 20 people have been
· killed.--|
There is no doubt that Moslem agitators caused the riots, as former Municipal improvements often necessitated much greater alterations without serious ob- jeation being made.
ters" were killed and 20 injured; London. Received August 5. Twelve more bathing fatalities been reported.
YACHTING.
"BRITANNIA'S " SUCCERS,
London. Received August 5. Yes arday the King'a yecht Britannia, which has not sen raced since 1809, proved an easy wipuer from scialch in a handicap for yael ts over røvenly-five fons There was practically no exoite-at Cower. ment in Jawapore generally, and The King and Queɔn and two the moderate Moslems were arof their children were aboard. ranging a deputation to meet Sir James Maston. Meanwhile the local Moslems, taunted by out- side agitatora, bold the mass meet ing of the 3rd inst. with the up- fortunate results outlined.
THE MANŒUVRES.
MORE WATERPLANES NEEDED.
London. Received Aug. 4. The "Daily Mail” says that the result of the Manoeuvres is
Submarines Missing,
BOMBARDIER WELLS
ANOTHER SUCCESS,
round at Blackfriars
OPIUM SMUGGLING.
Judge.
Macedonia's Future.
Later. Twenty-two corpses have now Mediterranean.
The officials realise that the been extricated alive, z London: Received Aug. 5. problem involves the very life of * Reuter's correspondent at Sofia the Manros. Deotrine, assother telegraphs that a Balgation European unions will probably Macedonian deputation bas ap-follow Britain's lead. pealed to the Powers for au autonomous Macedonis, declar- ing that Macedonian Bulgarians refuse to be absorbed by the Serb and Hellenic races.
Later, The Conference at Bokhateat has extended the armistice for three days and adjourned until August 5.
AMERICAN NEWS.
by the delegates were presented to councils, the members of which heartily applauded the speeches addressed to them, but failed to take any action.
200 New LaWE.
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COMPANY REPORT.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
Prepais ione are being made
for a serious battle at Woochow where the rebels are entrenching.
The continuance of fine weather has resulted in " phenomenal arrivals at the holiday resorts at
“A Great Hardship on Business Homme..
People."
Two of the submarines which At the Police Cout, this have bean participating in the noon Mr. Melbourne fined Messrs.naval manœuvres are reported ná 8. Moutile and Company, 810 missing.
for noting that cerlain
monies received by their, ahroff The Cruisers Haichi and He- were patrceived without stamped yang which receipts being given. There were demonstration against the Woo- were making: a. seven unstamped receipts. ohow forts have withdraw..
The ninety-sixth report of the court of directors to be submitted mesting of shareholders to be to the ordinary half-yearly general held at the City Hall, Hongkong on Saturday, 16th August, at foll pensity to be inflicted.
con, is as follows:-
and Russ, defended.
Mr Golding, of Messrs Goldring
...The list of accidents at Home The prosecution asked for the is growing hourly," There have His Worship aid that as the including five girls at Sligo.
been twenty cases of drowning,
To the Proprietors of the Hong-in stood at present" he was kong and Shanghai Banking Cor afraid the defendants were go ́lly,
Fire is raging in the Cadder poration.;
Me. Goldring said it appeared coal pit near Clasgow. Twenty- Gentleman, the Directors have to him o'very ungracious thing three mines were entombed and
there
LOCAL.
Four Chinees were esch fined
___ Big Railway Contract Bids have now been opened for the construction of section No. of the Broadway-Fourth Avenue Rapid Transit Railroad, which is to be operated by the New York Municipal Railway" Corporation (Brooklyn Rapid Transit), under The Latest Malls in Summary, the dual system contract. There were 118 separate items with nu- According to a report from St. merous sub-items bid upon, and Rose to submit to you, a General that in a cara where there was a only one was extricated alive. Louis, the Waters-Pierce Oil it will be impossible to give out Statement of the affairs of the dispnie between a member of the Company is being reorganized, ofisial figures as to totals until Bank, and Balance Shest for the community and a firm over a
The report that Britain con- its capital being increased from much tabulating has been done. half-year ending 30th June, 1913 matter of 88.50-it did not templates a great naval base in $400,000 $10,000,000. The Unofficial totals obtained from including $2,011,410.35, balance where it had been going on hund-fog official circles at Washington The net profits for that period, amount to a Crowa prosecution the Barmudas is keenly interest European banking family of ten of the eleven bidders indicate Rothschilda is understood to have that the Deck Contractor Com brought forward from last reds and hundreds of time if invested heavily in the reorganiza, pany is low bidder at 8237800, deducting interest paid and due, never been suggested that they and Roumanian delegates have account, after paying all ebarges, the Crowa were pressing It had It is stated that the Bulgarian tion and the new Company is with the Oscar Daniels Company end making provision for bad had ever done anything of the Bnally agreed regarding the expected to become a rival to the second at 82,851,000, and the and doubtful accounts, amount of kind before. This shroff frontier and other Roumanian Standard Oil Company in the Degnon Contracting Company to $6,005,579.15. United States. Mr Henry Clay third at $2,785,000. Section
was provided with enough stamps claims. London, Received August 5. Bombardier Walle kan oked out the board of directors of the old way between Houston and Bleeck-Profit and Los Account to credit unlimited supply of stamps.service in St. Paul's by singing
The Directora teommend the to stamp every receipt of the Pierce, of St. Louis, chairman of No 4 begins at a point about mid transfer of $250,000 from the firm in the Colony; he had an Patrick O'Keefe in the fifte: alb Waters-Pierce Company, will re-er Streets in Broadway and oon of the Silver Reserve Fund which The shroff had admitted him parody on the Litany beginning Suffragettes interrapted the tain a controlling interest in the tingea under that thoroughfare Fand will then stand reorganized company.
into Union Square to a point
al self that he was to blame. It Save Emmelve Pankhurst; Chinese Tong Wars, about 320 feet north of the $17,450,000.
appeared to bim to be very spare her, spare her." Itis reported from San Francisco southely_building line of Four-
They also recommend, writing unfair to the employer who off Bank Premises Account the could not do more. In his that blackmail, murders, opium teenth Street.
It is stated that ss" a result of Burggling and smuggling of
sam of $250,000.
opinion everybody who sent out s the naval mancouvres there will an increased determination on the Important Decision by A Manila coolies across the border were Nearly 200 laws passed by the After making these Transfer man for money and employed a be an increased determination on Admiralty to acquire waterplance
revealed in latters and docu- last Legislature have just become sad deducting Remuneration to shroff was technically guilty and the part of the Admiralty #peed- as speedily as possible; the pos-
manta taken upon the arreat effective in Missouri. Probably Directors there remains for ap: there was nothing farther to do goasion of large numbers being Judge Crossfield of Manila of Wong Do King, bead of the one of greatest interest is the propriation 84,490,578.15, out of but that every solicitor, Looky to acquire waterplanes. regarded as an urgent necessity handed down his decision in the the Bing Kung Tong on June 22. Orr Anti-Trust law, regulating the payment of a Dividend of himes and ere that the receipts which the Directors recommend seller, or grɗoer must go, out case of the steamship Rubi v. the Death, the immigration officials fire insurance companies, It is The Treasury is ready to supply United States Government. In anid, was the penalty for all who this bill that caused more than Two Pounds Sterling per Share, were stamped. He folt the ample funds,
February, 13,380 kilos of opium opposed, or attempted to betray 150 insurance companies to vis,, £240,000, which at 1/11.5-8, difficulty in this one was that $40 for being stowaways from London. Received Aug. 5, and 2 62 kilos of morphins were the ashemes of the high-binders, suspend writing business through the rats of the day, will absorb
were me finding Singapore on the as. Kutsang, Two submarines which had seized on this vessel by the one- The deportation of Wong will be at the State. "It is expected that
$2,438,095.24.
by which they were bound, but The Balance $2,052,482.91 he did not think, as far as Hong- bron participating in the naval toms officials as unmanifested sought at once, and other Chinese lawyers will attack the constitu
The offices of the Chinese news-
44 manoeuvres are missing, and cargo. As has been the custom in many American cities will be tionality of the Orr bill in the to be carried to New Front and kong was concerned, that they paper Shat Po" were attacked destroyera have left Rosyth to in such enses, the veesel was fined prosecuted. Wong for twenty Supreme Court. No imus could Loss Account.
were on all fours. This was not last night because the news from P. 500 for carrying oumanifested years has been head of the Bing be raised until it became effective. Sterling Reserve Fund, 2 80889 for a punitive fine and, the Canton was not displayed, According to the Admiralty, cargo in accordance with section Kauge, the most warlike and
Toe holding of $1,200,000 conditions here Ling different the failure of the submarines to 77 of Act 335. The vessel was powerfal of the Chinese tongs. A Washington message of Gune 21 per cent. Console has been from at Home, no doubt after th There were great rejoicinge in report themselves is probably due released under b n and the case Widespread levying of blackmail, 25 stated: The Atlantic revenue willen down by 836,000 to matter had been reported in th in the Chinese business quarters to ignorance of the fact that the taken to court by Warner, Barnes, said to be the principal activity cutter ice patrol was discontinued 8864,000, and now stands in the Preas-therer orters were in Court last night when news came manceuvres ended unexpectedly and Company, the local agents of the Bing Kungs, was made to-day by Capt. E. P. Bertolf, Boks at 72; Other Sterling somebody would come along and through that the Canton revolt on Saturday.
for the Philippine Steamship effective by a score of gunmen, on commandant of the service. Dan Securities" have bean have the law altered, The fact Company, to which this vessel salaries with bonuses for killing ger to steamships from iceberga written down to the extent of that his clients were found guilty belongs.
big men. The gunmen also has passed. The patrol of several 25,850,
rendered it necessay for those
The driver of a motor ear wÉS Jadge Crossfield held in his protected gambling dens and months resulted in the discovery To effect there adjustments and employing shroffs to go along and fined $50 for reckless driving and ORIENTAL IMMIGRATION decision that as the master of the owners of Chinese and American of numerous huge berge against maintain the Fund at £1,500,000 see a siamped receipt given or em: the same amount for failing to vessel had not known of the pre slave girls, the letters show. Many which warrings were sent by 3 per cent. Exchequer Bonds due ploy another shroff to check the observe the rule of the road, at sence of the contraband on board, letters bear upon the recent tong wireless to steamships and shore 1930, to the face value of £45,000 first. It was a very scent hard-the Police Court this morning, that the vessel was not liable and war, which extended the length stations. did not have to pay the fine. of the Pacific Coast, some of them During the last few years there giving specific instructions for the have been any number of parallel Killing of various men. One of the London. Received Aug. 4 cases where vessels have been letters was a catechism for smug fined from P. 250 to P. 1,000 on gled Chinese, preparing them for Reuter's correspondent at the same charge and the fine paid questions by immigration inspec-dustry to Argentins, Australis, Mr. F. H. Armstrong and Hon. Victoria, B.O states that the without protest. This decision tors if apprehended.
Uruguay, Brazil, and any other Mr. U. H. Ross having resigned Premier (Sir R. McBride) has throws a new light on the subject
countries which may be possible their seats on leaving the Colony, MOONLIGHT BATHING, declared that his Government and it is understood that the A number of women teachers sources of mest supply to the Mr. P. H. Holyoak and the Hon. could conceive of no right or in- Collector of Customs will appeal from the States of Oregon, Wash-United States. The placing of Mr. D. Laudale have been invited Buenos entitling anybody to inter- the case,
ington and Idaho recently called meats on the free list, sa provided to fill the vacancies; thean ap- fere with British Columbia's
on the Mayor and Connoillors of for in the Tariff bill, combined pointments require confirmation supreme authority to bar Oriental
Philadelphia and urged, in order with the fact that the supply of at this Meeting. -immigration.
that the school obildren of the outtle in this country has been Mr 8. H. Dodwell has been Moonlight bathers have another Weat should be given an oppor-decreasing for some years past, elected Chairman for the retreat in store for them on Friday: tunity of assing the Liberty Ball, bas led the Department of Agri mainder of the year and the Hon. night. By Find permission of that the relio be transported to altare to expect that other Mr D. Landsle Deputy Chairmth. Major Robinson and the officers, the Panama-Pacific Exposition in countries may be shipping beef the Mark Auditors. 1918. The Mayor said he favour to America in the near fatare. The accounts have been nudited ed seading the bell, but added The experts will find out exactly by Mr F. Maitland and Mr J. W. that the question would have to what provisions other countries C. Bonnar, the former acting for One of the defendants said he be decided by members of coun- make for inspection of their meat, Mr. W: Hatton Potte who is absent had heard the shipping company oils to be elected next fall. Peti- and whether any conditions pre- from the Colony, was pleased to grant free passen- tions signed by thousands of vail which might conflict with gers to Chinese wishing to return school children and by the Crow the most laws in operation in the to their native land.
vernors of the States represented United States,
fearch for them.
BRITISH COLUMBIA'S · ATTITUDE.
PLUMAGE BILL.
M
tim London. Received August 5. In the House of Commons, the Rt. Hon. C. E. H. Hobhouse (Liberal Member for East Bristol) introduced a Bill prohibiting the importation of the plumage and ekins of wild birds)
STOWAWAYS,
Four Chiness were each fined 840 or in default one month at the Police Court, this morning, for being stowaways from Singa pore on the ss. Kutang.
1
Liberty Bell.
The Ice Patrol.
also
were parobased at 97 and placed The Heat Supply.
in the Books at 93.`. From Washington it is reported This expenditure viz., £43,918. that the Government contemplates 11s. lld., was met out of the ear despatching four or five experts ning of the half-year. from the Bureau of Animal Ic-
Directors:
STANLEY B. DODWELL,
Chairman.
Hongkong, 6th August, 1918,
ship on business people, Every- one was affected by it.
His Worship said that though he regretted it, he would have to impose a fine of $10.
Military Band to Play on
Friday Night.
was ended.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY..
Victoria Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Bijou Soonto Theatre, 0.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW.NETN
Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m., Bijou Boenia Theatre, 2.15 p.m. Thursday, August 7. Concert at Peak Hotel 9.15 p.m.
Saturday, August 8. HK.0.0, Promenade Concert,
the band of the 25th Punjabis HK.0.0. Ground 9.15 p.m. will play on the bench at Northmile SwimmingChampionship" Point from 8 till 11 pm. The Vit.0.6 p.m. E beach, we are informed, will be Civil Eervice Olub v. Best of illuminated with coloured lights. League Tennis. The Tramway Company is mak ing the usual necessary arrange ments. Special cars will leave the Fost Office'evary, few minutes.
Saturday, August 16. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, half yearly meeting City Hall,